By Christopher J. H. Wright
If we're sincere, we need to admit that there are numerous issues we do not comprehend approximately God. we don't have ultimate solutions to the deep difficulties of existence, and people who say they do are most likely residing in a point of myth. There are components of poser in our Christian religion that lie past the keenest scholarship or perhaps the main profound non secular routines. for lots of humans, those difficulties increase such a lot of questions and uncertainties that religion itself turns into a fight, and the very individual and personality of God are known as into query. Chris Wright encourages us to withstand the restrictions of our knowing and to recognize the ache and grief they could usually reason. yet whilst, he wishes us in an effort to say, just like the psalmist in Psalm seventy three: 'But that is very well. God is finally liable and that i can belief him to place issues correct. in the meantime, i'll remain with reference to my God, make him my safe haven, and pass on telling of his deeds.'
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To believe in a political leader implies more than believing in their existence; it implies faith in the system of values for which they stand and confidence in their ability to carry it through. ’ When we believe in something we have a positive relationship to that in which we believe but for the Christian a positive relationship to the devil and demons is not possible. We believe in God and on the basis of this faith we disbelieve in the devil . . Satan is not the object of Christian belief but of Christian disbelief.
My own heart echoes that cry and I join in the protest at the gates of heaven. Such appalling suffering, on such a scale, in such a short time, inflicted on people without warning and for no reason, offends all our emotions and assumptions that God is supposed to care. We who believe in God, who know and love and trust God, find ourselves torn apart by the emotional and spiritual assault of such events. ” we cry, with the built-in accusation that if he were any kind of good and loving God, he would not allow them.
The Bible makes it very clear that we are not to fall into any kind of dualism – a good god (who made the world all nice and friendly), and an evil god (who messed it all up). Some kinds of popular folk Christianity do slide in that direction and give to Satan far more assumed power and far more obsessive attention than is warranted by the Bible. And such dualism is the meat and drink of a large amount of quasi-religious fiction, which sadly many Christians read with more frequency and more faith than their Bibles.